368,379 people killed, 306,096 injured and over $2,815,931,000 in economic
damages

What's the harm in Nigerian emails?

Those Nigerian emails are actually "false check" scams that just begin with an unsolicited email. They typically involve a story of funds trapped in a foreign bank or lottery winnings.
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Here are 1,512 people who were harmed by someone not thinking critically.

She received an email about a Jamaican lottery jackpot. After sending a fee, the situation rapidly spiraled out of control. A year later her life savings were gone and she had become a recluse. She committed suicide.Read more

She says she wasn't a sucker or easy mark, but she was curious about an email concerning large sum of money and an alleged lost relative. Over two years, she lost thousands and now is in debt.Read more& more

She received a convincing letter from a company claiming to want to hire her for consumer research, that contained a check. This is just a variant of the famous Nigerian scam, also known as a "false check" scam. Now the family is out $4,100.Read more

A Nigerian immigrant convinced him he was due to receive $1 Million inducing him to pay various fees. The million never materialized, of course. The immigrant was prosecuted and sentenced to 30 months in prison.Read more